- Miriam Patchen
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Miriam Patchen (1914–2000) was the wife and muse of poet and painter Kenneth Patchen, who dedicated each of his more than 40 works "To Miriam". After her husband's death on January 8, 1972, she was an activist advocating peace and poetry. Laurent B. Frantz, a civil rights activist, became her companion until he died on September 20, 1998.[1]
She was born Miriam Oikemus in Waverley, Belmont, Massachusetts on 28 September 1914 and died in Palo Alto, California on 6 March 2000.
Notes and references
- ^ Menna, Robert. Unpublished interviews with Miriam Patchen & Laurent B. Frantz, 1997 & 1998.
External links
- Obituary in The Independent (UK) by Marcus Williamson
- Kenneth Patchen Home Page
Categories:- 1914 births
- 2000 deaths
- People from Belmont, Massachusetts
- American activists
- American people of Finnish descent
- American activist stubs
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